the road in
i hadn't thought about the snow. it was wet and muddy as we neared the actual canyon. i looked to see if the shovel was in the truck, nope. so we parked and just walked there.
the only time i caught Chinche...the minute i turn the camera toward her she disappears.
skeleton of a centipede
this and the pic before are of the road out, the road to the canyon road. this is what you see in all directions. hundreds of miles. there used to be more trees. desert trees. but otherwise, it is exactly like it was when it was born. out there in the distance, you can't see it, it is hidden, is the valley. there is the RioGrande River, farms. it is sparsly populated. but everything there is human made. you could say, artificial, compared to the canyon land and all the lands surrounding. i like to think about this. it's a big thought. how everything was invented and created by human beings that came here.
this is where the frontage road along the freeway splits off into Polvadera road. the turnoff to the canyon road is about 10 minutes from my house. i wanted to take some pics of downtown Polvadera but my windshield was dirty and Sun was riding low and straight ahead. another time.
this is one of the more picturesque on the maybe 2 blocks of town.
this is more common. the guy who fixed my tire last week was telling me how it used to be "back in the day". he grew up here. his family were land grant people. he said there were many more homes, now all fallen back into the earth...adobe... and that everyone had gardens for their chilis and beans. chickens. goats. trailer houses were unheard of. there was a general store and the building i showed you was a dance hall. there was a cock fighting arena.
this is the road to my road.
my neighbor
those peaks to the right of the tree are the roof of an extremely beautiful home. it's just over the irrigation ditch. that's an interesting thing about New Mexico. we don't have "neighborhoods" here that are socioeconomic in design. there will be a junky trailer home directly next to a very elegant one. it's just how it is.
that's my house. straight ahead.
